Police and State Violence Have Secondary Impacts: Complex and Lasting Trauma
Residents walk past police as they shadow demonstrators protesting police brutality marching toward downtown on August 15, 2020, in Chicago, Illinois.
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These last weeks, months, years and decades we keep on adding names to the list Adam Toledo, Daunte Wright, Ma’Khia Bryant, Ronald Johnson, Pierre Loury, Rekia Boyd, Nickolas Lee, Laquan McDonald, Archie Lee Chambers, Maurice Granton, Anthony Alvarez.… The list of victims of police murder seems never-ending. Then there is the list of police torture survivors Gerald Reed, Stanley Howard, Tony Anderson, Darrell Fair, Sean Tyler, Kilroy Watkins, and on and on and on. Many of us speak these names. We show up at the rallies and actions demanding justice. We work tirelessly to dismantle the long-serving systems and structures that brutalize and kill Black and Brown bodies. We feel the anger and the terror. But, we don’t often
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How Thousands of American Laws Keep People ‘Imprisoned’ Long After They’re Released
Across the country, people with felony convictions face a daunting web of small obstacles to rebuilding normal lives. What will it take to fix?
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By REUBEN JONATHAN MILLER
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Reuben Jonathan Miller is an assistant professor at the University of Chicago’s School of Social Service Administration. He is the author of the forthcoming Halfway Home: Race, Punishment and the Afterlife of Mass Incarceration
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In the run-up to the election in November, there was a pervasive belief that the fate of the nation could hinge on Florida because of its 2018 passage of Amendment 4, which reversed a permanent voting ban for 1.4 million Floridians with felony records. Then, in September, an appellate court ruled that people with felony convictions must pay all their court fines and fe